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Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Please consider submitting papers relevant to the simulation of the social processes of science (broadly concieved) to Social Simulation 2014. This conference is in beautiful Barcelona, September 1-5th. If we get enough papers on the topic we will run a special track/session on this.

Tuesday, 25 February 2014

ROC curves plot true positive rates (TPR) versus false positive rates (FPR) for a given classifying procedure. This post discuses these curves as they might apply to different scientific disciplines.

It suggests that such curves are a more sophisticated way of judging the trade-offs inherent in science, and briefly discusses ways to improve ("lower") these curves, including awareness of "researcher degrees of freedom".

This is a blog (now) associated with the European Social Simulation Assocation SIG on "Simulating the Social Processes of Science". For all queries about the SIG, or items to post here please contact Bruce Edmonds "bruce at edmonds dot name". Thanks